All iPads Add US Holidays to iPad Calendar

[harborgirl]

Thank you! Link worked for me.
Does anyone know how I can enter birthdays once and then populated next year's calendar with the birthdays?

 

[shady825]

Thank you! Link worked for me.
Does anyone know how I can enter birthdays once and then populated next year's calendar with the birthdays?

Repeat: "Every year"
It is an option when you are selecting the time..

 

[LadyHoneyBabe]

Is this available for other countries too? I could do with all European holidays.

Did you find the European holidays?

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

However, were the calendar developer members at Apple asleep during development of the iPad??? After all, the iPad's calendar app doesn't allow me to swipe to turn any pages!!! All those other apps swipe, flip, and turn pages, but not this native Apple calendar app.

Yeah, this bothers me too. It's very counterintuitive when so many other apps have gotten me used to flipping pages. Sometimes it seems Apple's own first party apps don't adhere to their own interface guidelines and instead require the user to do something totally different and inconsistent which I don't understand at all. Another example would be while using iTunes on an iPad. It would be logical to swipe through search results, but instead you have to keep clicking on a little forward arrow underneath. I really hope they address both of these issues. It's SO much more logical to just swipe everywhere through a list or while turning pages on something.

 

[LadyHoneyBabe]

The upgrade erased my holidays.

 

[Drewsky87]

Wierd, I still have both my subscriptions after the update (gov't holidays and ravens' schedule). Were your calendars sync'd to your computer? Just re-add the subscription, only takes a minute or two.

 

[LadyHoneyBabe]

Wierd, I still have both my subscriptions after the update (gov't holidays and ravens' schedule). Were your calendars sync'd to your computer? Just re-add the subscription, only takes a minute or two.

my calendars were synch'd, but they didn't add in the holidays. I had to manually add them in again. All is good now. Thanks

 

[iMaven]

awesome! just added the holidays!

 

[krigsmakten]

Would be nice with a calendar without all the nonsense holidays - Diwali for example - and the various Arab and Jewish holidays that aren't observed, not to mention made up holidays like Kwanzaa. Does anyone know of a "core" US holidays calendar?

 

[awake]

how do you delete it?

 

[Drew61]

However, were the calendar developer members at Apple asleep during development of the iPad??? After all, the iPad's calendar app doesn't allow me to swipe to turn any pages!!! All those other apps swipe, flip, and turn pages, but not this native Apple calendar app. It seems like the Apple calendar developers must have scheduled their vacations during development, no pun intended.

A single finger swipe in the Calendar App works for flipping pages for me. You need to drag either from the left/right edge of the screen or the bottom corner of the calendar ... similar to flicking pages when reading books in iBooks. It works in both landscape and portrait mode. I'm using 6.0.1. Try it and see if it also works for you.

 

[pasadena]

Did you find the European holidays?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/calendars/index5.html for the UK. I just downloaded a bunch of cals (sun, us holidays, french holidays). Not sure all of them are up to date though.

 

[Weaselboy]

Would be nice with a calendar without all the nonsense holidays - Diwali for example - and the various Arab and Jewish holidays that aren't observed, not to mention made up holidays like Kwanzaa. Does anyone know of a "core" US holidays calendar?

That has been annoying me also. Finally found a work around this morning. Delete the Apple US Holiday calendar and add this one from Google Calendar. It is a public calendar and only lists the more common US Holiday like the previous calendar from Apple. I added it to my iCloud calendars and it synced over to iOS devices just fine.

 

[Baggio]

I found a some instructions to add US Holidays to my iPad Calendar. Here they are if you're interested.

1. Go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars
2. Under Accounts, tap Add Account
3. Tap Other
4. Under Calendars, tap Add Subscribed Calendar
5. In the Server box, type http://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics
6. Tap Next
7. Tap Save (no other entries needed)

When you go to the Calendar app, you see the holidays listed. If you decide you no longer want the holidays, you can delete the account in Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Thanks!